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Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Senate Minority Leader, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, has emerged the flag bearer of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, for Abia South senatorial district. He was elected unopposed Saturday at the party primaries by a mammoth crowd of delegates. Abaribe dumped the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Wednesday after withdrawing from the governorship race. He left the PDP because of the party’s lack of transparency in the build up to its primaries. Abaribe and six other governorship aspirants had boycotted the PDP primaries which they dismissed as a charade and endorsement of a preferred candidate. The Returning…
By Osita Chidoka For the first time in many years, I will not be attending the PDP Convention. I will watch from my house though I am a member of the Electoral Sub-Committee for the Convention. On May 10th, a National Delegate Congress Committee chaired by Prof. Kingsley Chimsorom Chilaka of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, went to Anambra to conduct the congress and did not conduct any congress in Idemili North LGA where I had bought form to contest as a National Delegate. Strangely the committee submitted a report and fake result for Idemili North LGA with the name of someone…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka The President and CEO, Digital Bridge Institute (DBI), Prof. Mohammed Ajiya, has re-echoed call for improved financial support to women and minority traders in Nigeria. Prof. Ajiya made the call during a roundtable discussion on improving digital inclusion of women and minority groups at a high-level Fintech and Financial Inclusion event. According to him, there is need for increased infrastructure and tools for easy access to digital penetration and broadband. He noted that such access upgrades the skills of women and the minority traders who, he said, are likely players for the improvement of digital inclusion in…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri The former governor of Imo state, Ikedi Ohakim, on Saturday officially withdrew from the Imo North Senatorial primaries of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Ohakim made his decision known to newsmen in Owerri. Ikengaonline gathered that Ohakim’s withdrawal was based on the zoning arrangement in the Imo North senatorial district. According to Ohakim,”It is with the highest sense of responsibility that I write to inform you of my withdrawal from the senatorial primaries for Imo North scheduled for Saturday, May 28, 2022. “The decision to withdraw from the race was arrived at after due consultations with my…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Senator Nkechi Nwaogu who represented Abia Central in the sixth and seventh Senate, has withdrawn from the All Progressives Congress (APC) senatorial contest scheduled for today (Saturday). She likened the APC ticket in the state to Zimbabwean dollar or tissue paper, while decrying the factionalisation in the party. Nwaogu who announced her withdrawal from the race while addressing newsmen in Umuahia, cited the confusion arising from the emergence of two governorship candidates in parallel primaries as reason for her action. She expressed displeasure that the APC in Abia could not leverage on its growing goodwill to dislodge…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Worried by the rising spate of violence in the South-East geo-political zone of Nigeria, the family of the detained Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has issued a 14-day ultimatum to Finland-based self-acclaimed discipline of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Mazi Simon Ekpa, to cease from using the name or the image of Kanu in his broadcasts or fundraise. Kanu’s family accused Ekpa of hiding under the cloak of Kanu’s disciple to incite violence in South-East Kanu’s family in a letter by their Attorney, Magnus Jonsson, dated May 17, 2022, threatened to commence legal action…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Nollywood megastar, Kanayo O. Kanayo, has given reasons he wants to celebrate his 60th birthday in style, though not flamboyantly. The Mbaise, Imo State-born actor who made the explanation in a viral video, gave the venue of the all-white themed birthday bash slated for Sunday, May 29, 2022 , as the MUSON Centre, Onikan, Lagos. He said he turned 60 on March 1, but decided to hold the celebration on May 29th for convenience. Kanayo who said he had never celebrated his birthday before, disclosed that his 50th birthday anniversary was put off in honour of the late Igbo legend and…
Our Reporter, Abuja A couple of days after dumping the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the former governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi has declared that he has joined the Labour Party. Obi made this disclosure through a series of tweets in his verified Twitter account on Friday. It would be recalled that while leaving the PDP obi promised his numerous supporters to announce his next course of action within days. According to the former governor, after consulting widely he has come to the decision of what he believes is the right route to the desired destination. “Since I resigned…
By Owei Lakemfa In our skewed world infected with conflicts, growing inequalities, and the right of might over right, we produced three new leaders in the last three weeks, none of which has promised to take a different direction. The son of a former bloody dictator, whose parents, Ferdinard and Imelda Marcos, are some of the most infamous people in history, was elected Philippines President. Australia, still trying to come to terms with its racist past of genocides, managed to replace its Trump-like Prime Minister Scott Morrison. The United Arab Emirates, UAE, a monarchy, ‘elected’ a new President, Mohamed bin…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Former United Nations Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, Professor Joy Ezeilo, has challenged the Nigeria political elite to empathise with children as they jostle for power ahead of the 2023 elections. The founding Director, Women’s Aid Collective, WACOL, who gave the challenge in her Children’s Day message, regretted that the future of the Nigeria child no longer matters to the political elite in their desperation to actualise their political ambition. According to her, “As Nigeria marks (27 May 2022) Children’s Day I dare ask what future for our dear children in a…